Mike Elsen-Rooney is an education reporter covering the New York City school system for The New York Daily News. He previously worked at The Teacher Project at Columbia Journalism School and The Hechinger Report.
His work has appeared in The Atlantic, USA Today, Slate, Bloomberg, The Boston Globe and others. He's a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and Northwestern University, and a former high school Spanish teacher and afterschool program administrator in the DC area.
You can reach him at m.elsenrooney@gmail.com.